Follow In Battlegrounds Broken After 5.2

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well at least that limits it to battle grounds and give some hope that they would be open to alternate suggestions as to boxing in BG's.

So what has long been thought is now proven true. complaining on the forums does get results.

Well there have been SO MANY complaints that what else can they do.

And you have to agree that the complaints are not without any substance, boxers are in fact overpowered and underpowered.


On the other hand getting rid of "basic bots" lol, they cant do anything to get rid of bots cept sue the bot software company which they are doing.

[Rosebud]

Blue post claims it is because of botting but follows it up with how they are improving the game for others by getting rid of multiboxing. I think they took all day to read the forums and see all the boxing hate posts only to swoop in and be the hero to the pitch-fork carrying mob. They probably consider the loss worth it or that the canceling threats are just threats. I'm not sure. One has to wonder if they planned to break it all along with his explanation of how it is good for the community.

[flux1]

To me that blue post says "We have no idea how to stop the bot problem, so we are throwing whatever we can think of at the wall to see if it sicks. If you all get caught in the crossfire, we don't care because people complain about boxing all the time. If we put /follow back in for arenas will you shut up and leave us alone?" Yet as I've seen from posts on other forums, the bot problem is just as bad as ever after this change. As I said before, I never did much PVP, but I still won't give this company any more money after this. Sneaking it in without notice then dismissing complaints from the boxer's side as its easier than to listen to people keep complaining is rather pathetic. "We tolerate it. For now" indeed.

[Ñightsham]

So Blizzard is saying if you want to box in BG's, Good Luck.
Otherwise, were going let you box PVE, Dungeons, Raids and World PvP.

It'll take you x times longer (per acct) to get PvP gear which equals more $$ for blizzard.

I still sent in my complaint, yet like most of you have already said it'll make ZERO difference to blizzard.
Not going to BlizzCon

NS

[Owltoid]

They knew the impact to multiboxing and they were comfortable with it. I understand their desire to stealth nerf to try and catch more bots, but I think it's a poor decision to surprise players. I don't disagree with their decision, boxing was pissing lots of peeps off.

I cancelled my accounts. I could try to do arena, but without a good way to get honor (other than botting) they won't ever be able to gear-up enough to step in.

Onto better RL things, though I still plan on visiting DB.com often!

[Chivalrous]

I'm going to blizzcon with 4 other fat nerds that look like me and will clump up about 10 paces behind and they will all carry signs that say something protesty and follow me all day doing exactly what I do. Every once in awhile ill have to do a figure 8 to pick 1 up that lags behind. That'll get their attention.

[Mickthathick]

I'm going to blizzcon with 4 other fat nerds that look like me and will clump up about 10 paces behind and they will all carry signs that say something protesty and follow me all day doing exactly what I do. Every once in awhile ill have to do a figure 8 to pick 1 up that lags behind. That'll get their attention.

Don't forget to make a /dance macro on all your slaves! Damn your post me laugh, good work.

It's just so illogical what they have done, removing /follow to break bots that don't use /follow to function *shakes head

I work in local government so I am used to stupid shit occuring in the name of governance/process/policy/politics but this lack of logic is something even we would baulk at.

It is what it is though, looks like the vocal forum idiots got their way in the end.

[Tin]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...775?page=6#104

We disabled /follow from use in battlegrounds to curb some of the most basic types of bots that use the command. We chose not to communicate it beforehand in attempts to catch as many bots unaware as possible. Removing /follow in battlegrounds is one small change we can make immediately to stop a number of bots, and those that choose to transition to more overt botting methods will have a much higher chance of being caught and banned.

We did consider those who use /follow for other reasons, including multiboxing, before making the change. Multiboxing in battlegrounds has been a long-fought battle within the community, as the effect of multiboxers in those situations is considered unfavorable by many. When we were looking to make a change to disable a command used by bots, which would benefit the game as a whole, we were ok with it also resulting in multiboxing in battlegrounds also going away due to the poor experience it can create for others.

Right now /follow is also disabled in Arenas, but we’re looking to revert that change as bots don’t typically exist in Arenas, and multiboxing in that kind of pre-determined group environment doesn’t tend to be as disruptive.

[smalltanker]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...775?page=9#165 ... and of course we will never hear when/if they put /follow back into arena/BGs.

[Shodokan]

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/to...775?page=9#165 ... and of course we will never hear when/if they put /follow back into arena/BGs.

We could all mass bombard mr street's twitter to at least get it back into arenas.